I do not own any of the anime/games in this fic. I also do not own Kel/Kelvis, Zero and Vale. They belong to Keyblade Master/Random/Limit Break Fira

Kuro Suzaku is owned by Kuro herself
Kariudo Shikaku is owned by Kariudo-kun herself
Ian Valentine is owned by Who's Asking.

I own Kiako (That's ME!), Mana, Malice and Miu. When a new paragraph starts these little thingies will appear ʓʓʓ and if those thingies don't show up I'm sorry -.-; And I'm sorry if there are spelling errors.

Mana and memories: Italic

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We were all rounded up inside the conference room of the Shera as soon as we had rested up a bit.

"This is Supervisor Komui. He's from the Black Organization." Reeve said introducing the man in the white, "I've asked for the help of the Black Order."

"Black Order huh, why?" Cliff asked with his arms crossed, he leaned against the wall, "What exactly are we up against now?"

Komui cleared his throat, "As you already have seen, there are more monsters here other then fiends, Dark Aeons and Hollows." he said, "Well, the new monsters you saw today was called-"

"An Akuma." I said almost unconsciously, "A kind of demon."

"HUH?" everyone looked down towards me (I was sitting at the very end of the table).

"How do you know?" Kambei asked as Katsuchiro fidgetted, "Do you know anything else about these?"

"I've heard from Mana, when we were fighting Anima, and it sprouted guns, he told me. Anima had become an Akuma." I replied. I saw everyone's bewildered looks, "Mana is my inner voice."

"Inner voice huh?" Kikuchiyo boomed, "If this "Inner voice" really exists, where is he then? I just think you're turning delusional!!"

"Kikuchiyo, try don't step out of line." Gorobei sighed.

Why that... Miss Kiako, if I may?

Be my guest.

I felt Mana's presence leave my body and watched as the bright balls of light flew out from my chest and swirled onto the table showing Mana kneeling with his head down. He stood up looking around the room then smiled at Kikuchiyo.

"Greetings."

"WAAAAH!! IT'S A PERSON!! A GUY LIVES INSIDE OF KIAKO!! AAAHH!!!" Kikuchiyo shouted blowing steam everywhere. I saw Katsuchiro jumped up to his feet and started to panic as well.

In fact, almost EVERYONE was panicing.

"WHERE THE HELL DID HE COME FROM?" Cliff exclaimed pointing.

"Please everyone, just calm down..." Mana said trying to coax everyone. His eyes dialated when Krowley jumped up at him, teeth bared.

"AKUMA!!!" he roared.

Mana had his own thoughts he wanted to express.

"BLOOD SUCKER!!!!!!!" Mana cried and jumped behind me, "DON'T LET HIM BITE ME!!"

"Blood sucker?" Zero's eyes also dialated, "We have a VAMPIRE on the ship?"

Everything went silent for a moment.

"WAAAAAH!!! VAMPIRE!!" Half the room screamed, "VAMPIRE AND AKUMA!!"

"I WANT TO LIIIIIVE!! I WANT TO LOOOOVE!!!" Kiku cried as he ran to the door and started to bang on it with his giant fists. I felt my temper start to rise.

JEEZ! All this because Mana came out?

"Everyone..." I started and when no one listened, I clapped my hands together, "Everyone calm down, this is the last warning...!"

Krowley lept at Mana again.

"WAAAH!!"

"Everyone CALM DOWN!!!!" I roared banging my fist on the table. Lightning blew up the table and the floor and parts of the table wrapped themselves around the people panicing. I huffed from my sudden yelling and the transmutation I had done. I straighting my clothes and ran a hand through my hair.

"Can we get on with the meeting?"

"..."

"THE TABLE IS ATTACKING ME!!!"

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"So, the mark of the Akuma is the pentacle." I said as I undid my transmutations.

"I'm sorry I attacked, I was afraid that an Akuma had snuck onboard." Krowley said, "Akuma take on the forms of the people they kill."

"It's alright, so long as you do not bite me..." Mana said as he hovered behind Lavi. I transmutated the table back to normal and everyone sat down.

"So, as I was saying..." Komui pulled up a map of Spira, "Akuma, Hollows and more fiends have started to appear in many places here."

"Deepground is somehow involved with the sudden appearances of Hollows and Akuma, along with the Nobusuri." Shalua said tipping up her glasses, "I'm just not sure how..."

"It's Hojo." Vincent said from the corner of the room, "Hojo is the only one who could do this..."

"Not to mention some help from the Apostles of the Stars." Charden said adjusting his tophat, "Doctor would have the ability to do this as well."

"Doctor-san is pretty smart... Buu..." Kyoko murmured while pushing buttons into her cell phone.

I felt something rest on top of my hand and looked up seeing Heihachi had put his hand over mine.

"You're shaking." he said and smiled, "Don't worry, everything will be fine Kiako-chan." I flipped my hand over to lace together with his and he gave my hand a light squeeze.

"... so, shall assign Lavi to stay with you." Komui finished.

"Me? Ok." Lavi shrugged and grinned, "Guess I'll be stuck with you for a while longer Purple pants."

"How DARE you refer to me as that!! I'LL LET YOU KNOW I AM VALE THE-" Vale suddenly slumped onto the table after Lavi extended his hammer and bopped him over the head with it.

Half of the room clapped.

Vale stood up again rubbing his head, "Why you..." he glanced up at Heihachi, glared and pointed at him, "YOU!!" Miu looked up at the same direction and pointed at me.

"YOU!!"

"Uh-oh...!" I squeaked backing into my chair.

"YOU-!" both Miu and Vale came at us together.

"Filthy-!" Vale started.

"Slut!" Miu shouted next, "I should-"

"Slash your throat out! You-"

"Disgusting-"

"Worm!!"

Both Heihachi and I just looked at eachother as the verbal abuse went on. JEEZ! These guys are really pulling out their vocab!! Not to mention the syncronization!

"Ok ok! Cut it out you guys!" Kel said pulling Vale away from under his arms as Ian and Zero pulled Miu away from trying to strangle me.

"Yeah, if you guys hadn't noticed already, they're kind of-" Ian tapped his chin, "Dating."

"IAN!!" half the guardians shouted, the other half slapped their foreheads or sighed.

Ian seemed to suddenly remember something, "Oh right! I wasn't suppose to let that out! Sorry everyone..."

Dammit Ian, I curse you and your poor memory!!

We all looked at Vale for a moment, waiting for something drastic to happen. Or, at least something crazy.

I got ready to jump between them when I needed to.

"Yes, it's true." Heihachi said slowly, "I am in fact, in lo-"

"GRAAAH!!" Vale dove over the table and almost at the exact same time, so did Miu. I grabbed Heihachi's collar, and pulled him down as the two crazies flew over our heads.

"You're dead!" Suddenly both of them were knocked back and slammed into the wall.

"That's enough you two." Cliff said as he pinned Vale to the wall.

"Quite." Kakashi agreed as he held up Miu, who was squirming around like crazy.

"Let me go! I'll kill her!"

"And I shall decapitate that Wood Chuck!" Vale suddenly fell silent when a dart flew into his neck and the same with Miu.

"Well! Now that we have those two completely drugged. I say we get to the bridge and meet Mr. Highwind!" Komui said cheerfully as he held up a blow straw. Cliff shrugged and grabbed both Miu and Vale by the back of their shirts.

"I'll drag this guys over to the medical wing." he said and left shaking his head, "Crazy kids these days..."

As everyone filed out, I breathed out the breath I was holding in and glanced at Heihachi. He smiled and lightly wrapped his arms around me.

"Man, scary for a second there huh?" he said. I nodded and hugged him.

"I'm just scared about what'll happen next..." I said. Hei-san smiled again and leaned in giving me a kiss on my forehead.

"Don't worry, I don't think anything will- KYAAAH!" we were suddenly thrown to the side and alarms started to blare.

"Dammit! Alright you maggots! Get to battle stations pronto!" Cid's voice shouted over the intercom, "If Deepground wants a fight, we better give it to them!!" Heihachi and I scrambled to our feet and ran out the door and down the corridor leading to the bridge.

"What a mood killer..." I mumbled and I saw Hei-san nod in agreement.

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We rushed into the bridge and I ran up to Cid.

"Eh? Oh you're here." he said and gave my hair a ruffle, "It was a false alarm."

"False alarm?" I blinked at him, "That what the hell crashed into the ship!!"

Cid pointed a gloved finger at the front window. Following his finger and where everyone's gaze was fixed, I felt myself stumble backwards.

"NAAAAH!!!" I rushed at the window and put my face near the glass, "It's!"

"Wakka-dono!" Heihachi said.

Sure enough, the besaid islander was waving his arms frantically and was mouthing words. Hell, he was practically using his mouth as a sucktion cup to keep himself lodged on the window!!

"You mean to tell me, that Wakka had enough momentum flying through the sky to knock a whole airship off balance?" I asked the WRO members and they all nodded, "HOW IS THAT PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE?"

"We were knocked off course from the Calm lands and we are now traveling across the Bikanel Desert."

"OI! GET HIS ASS OFF MY WINDOW!! HE'S LEAVING F---ING FACE MARKS!!" Cid shouted shaking his fists as Wakka's trail of slobber became his life line attaching him to the window. Somehow...

"Captain!! 7 UFO's flying straight at us!!" A WRO member reported.

"More Wakkas are flying towards us?" Zero asked.

"I can barely handle one Wakka!!" I cried gripping my hair.

"ABANDON SHIP!!!"

"Actually, now that I think about it I do recall Kuro sending me an e-mail through one of the computers here about Wakka casting a Float spell on himself..." Kariudo said tapping her chin.

"Dammit, stupid desert! Too much god damn sand plugging up the engines! Cid swore banging his fist on the steering wheel, "Them damn birds are tailing us now too!"

"Birds?" I looked out the window and thought I would have a heart attack.

"We have ZU birds chasing us? DAMN man!" Kel groaned, "What're the chances of that?" One of the Zu's flew past the window snapping and Wakka paniced and tried to force his face through the glass causing it to creak and crack slighty.

"They're after Wakka?" Kakashi sighed. Another Zu banged into the ship and I tumbled over. Rubbing my head, I looked up again to see the rest of them charging us at once.

"Everybody grab something!!" Cid barked and turned the ship violently to the side. The Zu's crashed into the window and I felt the air vacuum pull me out along with everyone else.

"GYAAAAAH!!"

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I coughed and sat up shaking sand from my clothes.

I. Hate. SAND.

I grumbled a bit as I stood up and after walking a few feet, found my backpack in the sand. I slung that over my shoulder and after looking about for a while, sighed in exasperation.

"Man, this sucks..." I mumbled to myself as I shortened the sleeves to my shirt into a kind of T-shirt (Horrah for unzippable sleeves), "I wouldn't be surprised if I get-" A hand shot out of the ground grabbing my ankle and I yelped slapping at it.

"STOP HITTIN' ME!!!" Lavi shouted as he emerged from the sand and shook some of it out of his red hair, "Jeez..."

"Lavi-san! Sorry... Thought you were a monster." I said and helped pull him out of the sand, "How did you land here?"

"Well, I tried to use my hammer to cushion the impact by slamming it onto the ground as hard as I could, but it didn't work so I got buried instead." Lavi explained and looked up, "Let's see... Judging by those black smoke lines, I saw we head that way." He pointed to a direction where black smoke was a trail in the sky.

Well, beautiful... Now we're stuck in a desert and if I recall, I only have one bottle of water.

"At least it can't get any worse." I shrugged with a smile. Lavi smiled too, shrinking his hammer to the size of a pencil and tucking it away into a holster on his leg.

"Yeah."

Suddenly the sand beneath us crumbled and we fell down what felt like a giant slippery goop filled tunnel.

"WAAAAAH!!!" Lavi and I were both screaming until we landed in a wet puddle. I managed to land on my feet held onto Lavi's shoulder so I wouldn't slip in the goop.

"Eww! What that hell is this stuff?" Lavi shouted, obviously repulsed. Honestly, I was too...

"Looks like we're in a cave, or tunnel." I said, "Dammit! It's so dark in here, if only I could reach my backpack I could get out my flashlight."

"I doubt someting that puny will light this place up." a voice said from in front of us. I looked up seeing a shadowy kind of shape. Hey I may be half cat and half demon but I've still got parts of me that are human, maybe not being able to see in the dark is the same as me without my glasses...?

A small flame lit itself in front of us and I jumped forward in glee accidently knocking Lavi over.

"KURO-SAMAAAAA!!!" I shouted happily. The blackmage put the flame in her hand threateningly in front of her.

"Don't make me use this any more then I have to!" she said.

Lavi was crawling up to his feet wiping slime from his coat. He used his scarf to rub his hands and face off.

"Um, ok... Kinda a weird place to live don't you think?" Lavi said to Kuro. She raised her eyebrow and turned to me.

"Is he some kind of new found breed of Idiot?" she asked.

"Idiot? That's not nice!"

"I just met him too, he's an exorcist. This is Lavi. Lavi, this is my best friend Kuro. She's also one of the smartest people in the world." I said introducing them to each other.

"Nice to meet you. Now, since you're here, I guess I should start trying to find a way out." Kuro said.

"First of all, where are we?" I asked. Kuro gave me a look I knew all too well.

"Do you really want to know where we are?"

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"We're inside the stomach of a Sandworm? That SUCKS!!" I cried gripping my head. Lavi used his Innocence to make a platform out of ice for us to sit on, so we didn't have to stand for hours on end in the Sandworm insides.

"Believe or not, we are." Kuro said, "I can't believe I'm in here in the first place..."

"Say, how did you get here Kuro?" Lavi asked. Kuro sighed.

"Well, I was flying too close to the sand, and then... Well..." she groaned, "I was flying too low and the sandworm jumped up and ate me from above."

"You were EATTEN?"

"It's pathetic, I know, but what's important now is to get out of here!!"

"Well... In Pinnochio, the old man and Pinnochio went to Monstro's mouth and tickled his uvula with Pinnochio's nose, which grew because he was telling lies on purpose." I said rubbing my chin, "Then Pinnochio became a real boy."

"You missed half the whole story you fool!" Kuro growled, "I bet the whale ended up vomiting the old man and Pinnochio out!!"

"You forgot the gold fish and the cat and Jiminy Cricket!!" I said using my finger to point at the ceiling as my Matter O' Fact pose.

"Um, Ok..." Lavi scratched his head, "First, what's a You-Vee-La and does this thing have one?"

"Uvula, not You-Vee-La." Kuro corrected, "And I have no knowledge of the anatomy of a worm!!"

"Ok ok, but what's a uvula?"

Kuro snatched Lavi's pencil sized hammer and shoved the handle down his mouth, "It's this thing!!"

"GAAAGG!!" Kuro pulled the hammer out, "Don't use my own weapon to gag me!!" I rubbed my ears to help my think and stared at the ice platform.

"Um guys, the ice is dissolving..." I pointed out.

"DAMN YOU DIGESTIVE SYSTEM!!!" Lavi shouted. The walls shook and Lavi almost fell over.

"You fool! Stop moving around or we'll all fall in!!" Kuro yelled. I tried to tune out their argument and looked around. All I smelt was the horrid stench of this worm and sand. Oddly enough, there was breeze...?

"Kuro, there's a breeze." I informed.

"A breeze? That must be from the mouth, if we could just climb out..."

"You forgot the fact the walls are lines with slime." I noted, "Can't you fly us out?"

"Are you kidding? My wings are still soaked from the first time!" Kuro said, "If I could just fly out of here then I'd be out of here!"

"What about Flaring this thing to death from the inside?" I asked.

"Tried that. The slime has a kind of negating specialty to magic." Kuro replied, "No wonder Lulu could never blast herself out of one of these things."

"Then how did Lavi's magic work for the ice platform?" I asked.

"Because, I don't use magic, it's something called Innocence that let me use special abilities with my hammer. It can also grow!"

"Grow huh, interesting..."

I rummaged in my bag and pulled out an empty mayonaise jar. How all this junk fits in my bag, I have no idea, it's practically bottomless in this world!! I scooped the slime into the jar so it was full and covered it tucking it back into my bag.

"What're you doing?" Lavi asked raising his eyebrow at me.

"You never know, plus it apparently becomes just normal non-acidic slime when it's not touching the walls." I said and felt another breeze, "If we could just keep this things mouth open we could ride out on the ice."

"No kidding, we keep tipping over from the worm's movements." Kuro said, "I think I'm going to be sick..."

"What if we flood this place? We could float out."

"How can we flood this thing without water?"

Lavi grinned and pulled out his hammer.

"You need water? Then I'll give you water!" He enlarged his hammer and the seals surrounded him again, " Tenchi Bankai: Moku Ban! (Heavenly release: Wood seal!!) He stamped his hammer into the side of the wall and the wood character glowed on the wall. The ice we were standing on suddenly started to rise and rock.

"Water? Where's it coming from?" Kuro asked using her staff to steady herself.

"My wood seal controls everything in nature. Better hold on ladies! I just used it to squeeze out every once of water out of this thing!!" Lavi said and kneeled dow pointed to a direction, "Now water, flush us out of this slime hole!" The water seemed to recede backwards a bit then surged forward.

"WHOA!!" bright light blinded me for a moment and I staggered as I suddenly hit sand. Sitting up, I saw there was water and slime all around us and that what was left of the worm was a shriveled...thing...

"I.. Don't know what to call that anymore..." Kuro said dusting herself off, "Ah! Good old magic!" she tapped her staff on the ground and our clothes became dry. Lavi was lookig up at the sky.

"At least the smoke lines haven't faded yet, I think I might know where everyone else are." he said.

"Well, count me out for flying, my wings are still a mess." Kuro said.

"But what happened to our clothes then?"

"I dryed our clothes, I can't dry my wings. The goop needs to lose it's effect before I can fly again." Lavi rubbed his chin and propped his hammer down in the sand, mallet down.

"I think I can solve our transportation problem." he said, "Here, hold onto this."

Kuro and I looked at eachother and took a hold of the smooth handle of his hammer.

"We're not going to die are we?" Kuro asked.

"Of course not!" Lavi smiled, "Now hold on tight!! ♥ "

"I don't feel safe anymore Kuro-sama." I whispered.

"I don't either. He had the nerve to use a heart at the end of his sentence!!" Kuro whispered back.

"Alrighty! Size shifting hammer..." Lavi grinned, "JUMP!!" My hand slid down a bit as we suddenly rocketed up into the sky.

"KYAAAAH!!!" Kuro and I were both screaming for a moment and then, settled down a bit as we soared high above the sand and sped towards the black smoke tower.

"BASTARD! YOU COULD'VE WARNED UP BEFORE YOU DID THAT! I ALMOST RIPPED MY ARM OUT!!" Kuro shouted.

"WHOO HOO!! Jump hammer! JUMP!! To the Shera!! Or, what's left of it... JUMP!!!" Lavi shouted.

"YEAH! JUMPINESS!! JUMP!!" I shouted as well laughing.

"Don't encourage him!!"

"WHEEEEEEE!!!"

Authors notes: Yes, this took a long time to finish... I am busy... I have Guy and Jade withdrawal... Heck, ever since I played Tales of the Abyss at Kuro's house I've been having ToA withdrawal!! AND IT"S ONLY BEEN A DAY!! Well.. Thanks for reading. I'll update soon n.n

ps. I found out that I suck at math, but am good in Physics...